THE BISHOP’S LECTURE.

Evening Star, Issue 7281, 4 August 1887, Page 4

THE BISHOP’S LECTURE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir,— Permit me to offer my thanks to His Lordship tor the very efficient service he has rendered to the cause I have at heart. Bv his wholesale denunciation of the children—our little maidens especially—of Mew Zealand he has shown to what lengths men will go when blinded by too much zeal, I have been thirtysix years a colonist of New Zealand, and I am the father and grandfather of a tolerably numerous progeny, consequently I have as great an interest in the education question as most of my fellow colonists. I have had some experience as a teacher, and I can confidently affirm that I have known some of my most (outwardly) religious pupils to be the most immoral and untrustworthy. It was not what they learnt at school, neither was it what they did not learn. It was the Influence and example of “ home.” Home is the place for the education of the heart—the school lor the intellect and the body. To do all that is possible towards the production of sound minds in sound bodies, is the duty of the State. The interests of society render the observance of a certain moral code absolutely necessary, and this observance is enforced alike by statutory law and the law et custom. But that nobler morality, the earnest love of the beautiful and the true, must have a nobler origin and more tender culture than mere utilitarianism. It is not belief in dogma, but faith in human love and usefulness of life, that purifies the heart. The Bishop’s “ ambition has o’orloaped itself, and fallen on the other aide.” He ia “ hoist with his own petard."—l am, etc., Charles J. Rae. Dunedin, August 1.